Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Quotes
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
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By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
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Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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Well I've had a happy life.
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Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
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The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
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The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.
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Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
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I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown out our emotions in competition and making money. Now women are being forced to do that too. But I admire their capacity to bear their spirituality so much more deeply than men.
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There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.
